Esme Bates

09/07/2025

09/07/2025

🎬 Esme – TV Scriptwriter | Storyteller | Voice for the Bold and Underrated

I’m a TV scriptwriter and narrative artist trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, with a strong background in private education and a creative instinct forged by lived experience, resilience, and razor-sharp observation.

I write stories that are structurally solid, emotionally intelligent, and socially relevant — often witty, sometimes devastating, but always human. My portfolio spans romantic comedy, speculative drama, and docudramedy, with standout pilots including:

📺 Billy Darcy’s Diary — a modern manist rom-com in the spirit of Bridget Jones
🌍 The Future Is Made in China — a post-COVID docudramedy rewriting the global narrative
⚡ Justice League: Apotheosis — a time-twisting, morally complex superhero epic

I live in Didcot, Oxfordshire and work in a standing wheelchair — which makes me one of the first, best, and only screenwriters in the UK offering a visually distinctive, media-forward perspective backed by real craft and imagination-led storytelling.

💡 I’m open to:
– Scriptwriting work for TV, radio, and streaming
– Feature articles, interviews, and centre spread coverage
– Collaboration with producers, commissioners, or directors
– Opportunities that break rules and reshape screens

📩 Let’s connect if you’re looking for a writer who brings depth, edge, and heart — and the courage to make something entirely new.

29/04/2025

Immersive nostalgia by me, Esme.

Time travel back to 1991 Chiltern Edgers!

Ready?

Six light, quick fire shorts to massage your memory about yester year. Warm-up questions for you to ponder. Nothing too deep. Familiar stereotypes to contract you into memory…

Thirty additional videos to do a deep dive into your CE1991 identity.

Aimed at CE1991 to have an immersive journey down memory lane together.

Each YouTube video by me, Esme Bates poses a question to allow the audience to immerse themselves and recall their own responses.

Conversation starters by Esme Bates through the medium of poetry songs and moving image.

Designed for others in CE 1991 to watch and trigger their own memories in the comment section through words or their own videos.

A way to start to combat the beginnings of mental decline, as well as celebrate our shared history.

When you turn 50, being a teen seems yonks ago. The friends, positives, negatives; the fond recollections.

I have been creating songs and videos from a 50 year olds perspective.

Poem-songs by me for CE1991 to send my love. Plus a few songs celebrating individuals in my life from that era.

A playlist to start to assemble a skeleton of alumni to have some sort of reconnection.
As many names as possible named to try and find the lost alumni.

Some photos of alumni found, plus images of 80s to emote memories and a sense of play.

One or two anecdotes but mainly a sweep to find people at this stage. Anecdotes to follow, let’s hope and new memories to make.

A celebration of life, resilience and purpose.

Not too many photos of us as kids to avoid misinterpretation.

Over 300 in the year but everyone will be named at some point, so hang tight. I am one little old lady.

Feel free to send me stories or photos of ce1991 to inspire poems and songs.

Each YouTube video by me, Esme Bates poses a question to allow the audience to immerse themselves and recall their own responses. Conversation starters by Es...

10/08/2024

https://youtu.be/6QHqlVkqfdo?si=_CY8dX95MscUZvR2

Olympic commentator, development team and UK Head mash up

09/08/2024

https://youtu.be/6QHqlVkqfdo?si=5vudAwEKa_Ty9W3w

Olympic commentator, development team and UK Head mash up

09/08/2024

https://youtube.com/shorts/-7GZTmCMpvc?si=lNQWgq9IWkFS8nUt

24/07/2024

Ocean based humour: singing mermaid, P&O, dancing jellyfish and reminder that 2/3 world ocean.

Ocean based humour: singing mermaid, P&O, dancing jellyfish and reminder that 2/3 world ocean.

23/07/2024

Wednesday in UK, Married at First Sight Bride and Derek duet.

Wednesday in UK, Derek duet

22/07/2024

7 & 8 Timestable cheat framed by mum trying to be cool. Bit of brain training and wise words from mum.

7 & 8 Timestable cheat framed by mum trying to be cool. Bit of brain training and wise words from mum.https://youtu.be/ER305wCsNNs?si=V1J7ogjJUsyTiY9F

21/07/2024

A nail technician predominately, a hairdresser and Englebert.

A nail technician predominately, a hairdresser and Englebert. A slice of America.https://youtu.be/guHEZ9nyo94?si=K7JRxaQ6y1zlfSbD

21/07/2024

Through a 2024 lens. Why do dinosaurs not exist? Why is British weather so appalling? Why do we wear clothes? How can friends turn?

Through a 2024 lens. Why do dinosaurs not exist? Why is British weather so appalling? Why do we wear clothes? How can friends turn? https://youtube.com/playl...